Directing Books

I have included only a few of the books Amazon.com has available on Directing. These books are the ones I personally recommend. If you wish to view or purchase a book, click on the Book Title below and you will be taken to Amazon.com to view the book.

My “You Must Have These in Your Library” List

• Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television – Judith Weston
• Directing Feature Films – Mark Travis
• The Working Director: How To Arrive, Thrive, and Survive in the Director’s Chair -
  Charles Wilkinson
• Thinking Like a Director – Michael Bloom
• Notes On Directing – Frank Hauser and Russell Reich
• Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen – Steven D. Katz
• Film Directing, Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes – Steven D. Katz
• The Director’s Journey: The Creative Collaboration Between Directors, Writers and Actors – Mark W. Travis
• The Filmmaker’s Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age – Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, Carol Keller
• Hitchcock’s Notebooks: An Authorized and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock – Dan Auiler

My “You Can’t Go Wrong With These” List

• Directors in Rehearsal: A Hidden World – Susan Letzler Cole
• Directing the Action: Acting and Directing in the Contemporary Theatre – Charles Marowitz, Peter Brock
• Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing – William Ball
• Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers – James Michael Thomas
• Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Filmmaking – Greg Merritt
• Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics – Michael P. Rabiger
• On Directing – by Harold Clurman
• Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art – Eric Sherman
• Actors Turned Directors: On Eliciting the Best Performance from an Actor and Other Secrets of Successful Directing – Jon Stevens
• The Film Director: Updated for Today’s Filmmaker, the Classic, Practical Reference to Motion Picture and Television Techniques – Richard L. Bare, James Garner, Robert Wise
• Directing for Television: Conversations With American TV Directors – Brian Geoffrey Rose
• On Screen Directing – Edward Dmytryk
• On Directing Film – David Mamet
• Directing Single Camera Drama – Mike Crisp
• Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Filmmaking – Greg Merritt

My “Books on Directors” List

• Once Upon a Time: The Films of Sergio Leone – Robert Cumbow
• Our Films Their Films – Satyajit Ray
• The Films of Carol Reed – Robert F. Moss
• Orson Welles: A Critical View – Andre Bazin, Francois Truffaut

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